Uranus hangs on the wall of space as a mysterious blue green planet. With a mass of 8.683e25 kg and a diameter of 51‚118 km at the equator‚ Uranus is the third largest planet in our solar system. It has been described as a planet that was slugged a few billion years ago by a large onrushing object‚ knocked down (never to get up)‚ and now proceeds to roll around an 84-year orbit on its belly. As the strangest of the Jovian planets‚ the description is accurate. Uranus has a 17 hour and 14 minute
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suitable for life - Size of earth has allowed the internal heat from leaking too rapidly - Plate tectonic activity and bulkinism helps maintain and recycle carbon dioxide which helps prevent the earth from freezing - The magnetic field from the inner core maintains heat at a certain level protecting earth - Within the atmosphere‚ there exists hydrogen‚ water‚ methane and ammonia - These gases are subject to lightening and therefore form an electrical discharge - These interactions of gases
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Alyssa Grace A. Layug Professor Rosales ENGL 3173 January 23‚ 2013 An Analysis of the Little Prince by Antoine De Saint-Exupery The Little Prince or Le Petit Prince was inspired by the author Antoine de Saint Exupery’s real life experience and just added fictionalized images to make it real and understandable. It became the marvelous book written for children. Sold over 140‚000‚000 copies worldwide into more than
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During the next eighteen days‚ the Odyssey navigated through a dazzling array of nebulae as they left the Orion spur and entered the Perseus arm of the Milky Way Galaxy. In one area‚ in particular‚ the spirals of nebula clouds reminded Surina of Vincent Van Gogh’s Starry Night painting. On another occasion‚ she saw an electrifying nebula cloud in the shape of a cat’s neon green eye staring at her from a distance. In fact‚ the serpentine arms of the nebula clouds stretched throughout interstellar
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system- the Sun and group of bodies that revolve around it; Sun attracts by gravity; includes Sun‚ planets (major bodies that orbit a star)‚ asteroids‚ and comets. ~Inner planets- mercury‚ venus‚ earth and mars- solid rocky surface Outer planets- Jupiter‚ Saturn‚ Uranus‚ Neptune (Pluto)- gaseous ~Earth’s polar areas are slightly flattened (oblate spheroid) ~Moons- smaller objects that orbit a planet‚ body that orbits a larger body called a satellite. Moons are natural satellites. ~Solar energy
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\section{Composition of Jupiter} Jupiter is largest planet in our solar system‚ it has got four planet size moons‚ when Galileo discovered Jupiter’s four large moons: Io‚ Europa‚ Ganymede and Callisto‚ now known as the Galilean moons.Jupiter resembles a star in composition. In fact‚ if it had been about eighty times more massive‚ it would have become a star rather than a planet. Jupiter has got a count of total moon of 49. Jupiter unlike wise the Earth does not have a solid surface. In Jupiter‚ clouds
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Self-Test Chapter 1 1. ____________ is fundamentally concerned with understanding the processes that operate at or beneath the surface of Earth and the materials on which those processes operate. a. Economic geology b. Physical geology c. Historical geology d. Environmental geology e. Planetary science 2. In the scientific method‚ a theory is ____________. a. an assumption that cannot be either proven or refuted. b. a plausible‚ but yet to be proved‚ explanation of a phenomenon
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includes eight planets and their natural satellites such as Earth’s moon; dwarf planets such as Pluto and Ceres; asteroids; comets and meteoroids 2. The sun is the center of our solar system. It contains almost all of the mass in our solar system and exerts a tremendous gravitational pull on planets and other bodies. 3. Our solar system formed about 4.6 billion years ago. 4. The four planets closest to the Sun - Mercury‚ Venus‚ Earth‚ and Mars - are called the terrestrial planets because they have
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Neptune is the eight planet from the sun. Neptune is the outermost plant of the gas giants. Neptune has a very different surface than most of the planet. Neptune has a very thin rings of ice. Neptune does not have any life‚ but its weather there is very active. Large storms usually occur there. Neptune has a rocky inner core which have water around. Neptune’s atmosphere has hydrogen‚ helium and methane. Neptune has rings around it. Neptune has 5 rings which are Galle‚ Le Verrier‚ Lassell
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everyman‚ but to the astrologists studying it the dwarf planet has proven itself to be a wealth of knowledge which even sometimes contradicted what they previously believed. It’s geological processes are fascinating‚ exhibiting behaviour never thought possible. Even after eighty-six years‚ there is still much this tiny Kuiper Belt object can teach us.
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